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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;funkee, post: 1630980, member: 37925&quot;]There are rare notes out there. It&#039;s about patience and luck. I have checked about $5,000 in ones from straps in the past month or two, and I have not found a single star note, web note, repeater or radar. Someone must have searched them before, because that is pretty unlucky. Oddly enough, the straps came from different banks.</p><p><br /></p><p>I checked 5 or 6 different banks before I came to the one in the south bay area in a town called Los Gatos. One of the tellers told me she had just sent in a stack of $100 FRBNs (brown seals) to the Fed a few weeks before I had arrived. She said she had no idea anyone wanted them. I knew this was the right spot - it&#039;s a wealthy little town with a lot of history. I was disappointed about the FRBNs and asked for a stack of twos so as not to leave empty handed. Among that stack, I found a 1953C $2 US Note (red seal) pictured below. It&#039;s funny that she had no idea it was even in her drawer.</p><p><br /></p><p>I returned about two months later and talked up a different teller at the same bank. He had a bunch of old FRNs stashed. He explained that the had them in his drawer for over a year now, and no one wanted them, thinking they were counterfeit. I gladly took them all.</p><p><br /></p><p>My haul is below:</p><p><br /></p><p>- 1934 $50 lime seal</p><p>- (2) 1934 $100 lime seals (VF and VG)</p><p>- 1950 $100 FRN</p><p>- 1950A $100 FRN</p><p>- 1981 $50</p><p>- 1953C $2</p><p><br /></p><p>The $20 repeater came from an ATM withdrawal actually. That&#039;s all about luck.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=CONFIG]232831[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=CONFIG]232832[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=CONFIG]232833[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=CONFIG]232834[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>In San Jose, a teller gave out a 1928 $1 US Note in pretty rough shape to the guy in front of me. The teller asked him &quot;I have this one, do you want it?&quot; and he said yes. I was ****ed! I offered to buy it from him for $50, but he declined - saying he wanted to research it first.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]233121.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>At another bank in a town called Lafayette, I talked up a teller who told me of a lady who came to him to exchange a 1928 $500 Gold Certificate for hundreds. Only 59 are known to the census The teller described it as &quot;mint&quot; condition. He tried to exchange it with her so he could keep it, but he didn&#039;t have $500 in cash. He knew that if he took money from the drawer, he&#039;d get fired. He asked her to return in a few hours during lunch, but she never came back.</p><p><br /></p><p>After I told him it was worth $25,000+,&nbsp; I think he regretted not taking a chance with the money in the drawer. Ha.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]233120.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>My suggestions are</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Go to banks in isolated towns</p><p>2. Go to banks in wealthy suburbs that have been established for at least 100 years</p><p>3. Stop searching straps and have the tellers do the work for you</p><p>4. Talk up tellers and let them know you&#039;re into collecting. The second time I went to that Los Gatos branch, I brought with me a few notes to get them interested as well, and to show them what is out there. I had a few large size notes, some small size notes from a variety of seal colors, and a fractional to boot. </p><p>5. Don&#039;t stress the value of the notes so much, but do give the tellers some kind of incentive to give these to you. You don&#039;t want them pocketing them instead. To the teller who gave me the old lime FRNs above, I told him to call me if he got anything cool and I would treat him to lunch.</p><p><br /></p><p>Good luck![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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